Select provider of libav* libraries

[Bálint Réczey]

Hi,

2014-08-27 1:22 GMT+02:00 Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu>:
> Hi,
>
> 2014-08-27 0:47 GMT+02:00 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> there was a discussion on the debian-devel mailing list about
>>> reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian [1]. The security team made clear [2]
>>> that they will only support one provider of the libav* libraries. So
>>> either libav or FFmpeg could go in the release and the other library has
>>> to stay in experimental (or unstable with a RC bug). The maintainer of
>>> libav is the Debian Multimedia team and therefore it is up to us to
>>> decide whether we want libav or FFmpeg in Debian 8 (jessie).
>>>
>>> So I am asking you: Should we ship libav or FFmpeg?
>>
>> Libav, see my previous emails that I posted on this mailing list on
>> this topic for rationale.
>>
>>> Can we reach a consensus on this topic?
>>
>> So far I don't see disagreement on this within our team.
> Wearing my XBMC maintainer hat I would vote for FFmpeg, thus there is
> no consensus.
I have to rephrase my answer here, because I may have misinterpreted
the question.
IMO with the source package libav we (the Multimedia Team) should
continue to follow the Libav fork.
I would like to see the FFmpeg fork in Jessie built from the ffmpeg
source package to let package maintainers decide which library they
find the better for their packages.
I would also like to add that since Libav and FFmpeg offer different
features they are different enough to consider them as alternates
which have the place in Debian on their own right. As a consequence I
don't think that the Security Team nor the Release Team should block
any of the alternates from entering testing, unless there are security
related or other release critical issues.

Cheers,
Balint

PS: I would like to see the Libav and FFmpeg forks merging under any
name they pick, but this is unlikely to happen before Jessie's freeze.
Maybe before Jessie+1...

>
> I would like to see FFmpeg at least in experimental to make an
> informed judgement and let us _and others_ compare the libraries.
>
> Cheers,
> Balint
>
> PS: I'm following the thread on debian-devel.